How Do We Solve a Problem Like Joe Lieberman?
Yes things like this just pop right into my head! What can I do? Joe Lieberman is not a prima donna, attention seeking, media whore, nope he is the de-facto president people, and he is looking out for our best interest. It is so weird you all can't see that.
I've composed a song in his honor, well okay I stole the song from the Sound of Music, but I did add my own words... so hum along with the tune, you all know it! Thanks for your oh-so-hard work Joe, see you at the Abbott Labs board meeting next week!
So how do you solve a problem like Joe Lieberman?
He loves to be on the teevee,
And bends upon just one knee,
While he looks at you and me,
Pledging he knows what can be.
He has a budding friendship
With Giorgio Armani!
He walks around the town to temple
Preaches just like the great Gantry
And underneath that frozen smile
Covered by a sheath
You can almost see the ads tattooed upon his teeth!
I've even heard him speaking
On the stage of republic-cons
Given his own starring role
With a speaking fee to go
Oh how do you solve a problem like Joe Lieberman?
He is everywhere those cameras seem to hide
His drug of choice is Fox teevee
They invite him every single day
Just to see what he has to say,
I am sure it is worth hefty pay!
Oh how do you solve a problem like Joe Lieberman?
He says he is really just on our side
You should believe him, ask me why.
Can't you see he is dropping by?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Joe Lieberman?
How can you catch a guy who loves Versailles?
How do you find a word that means Joe Lieberman?
Especially when fool might seem to light!
Well Joe, thanks you so much for standing by us one more time, it is so awesome you are here to watch out for us!
Leiberman is an insult to the ethical values of hard-working prostitutes everywhere.
November 1, 2009 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh ho ho!
November 1, 2009 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
He can't be in his right mind, and he's got everything to lose, so please understand that I feel sorry for his disconnect with reality. I do believe that the public will hear in the not-too-distant future that he has some physical affliction creating this mental disorder.
November 1, 2009 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah! We can only hope...
November 1, 2009 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given his reversal of his 2004 support of the public option... and given his contradictory rationale of his original reversal within a 24-hour interval, I have to wonder whence the grandiosity. While it's true that the media drinks in his free offerings, he has no power and influence with his colleagues that I am aware of.
November 1, 2009 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he is a classic putz... or schmuck, or all around ass clown. He certainly has given into his friends in the Insurance Industry!
November 1, 2009 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why all the "or's" in this comment? "And" is a perfectly appropriate conjuction here.
November 2, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is possible that he has a history of pettiness and pique, but I haven't heard of it before. Even if so, I find it highly improbable that he would indulge his ego, conceit and vanity to this extent, unless there were some underlying health problem.
Please understand that I do not disagree with your criticism of his behavior... it's only that I do not understand how he got from there to here.
November 1, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if his "illness" has anything to do with a pharma payoff or some such thing!
November 1, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
tmccarthy0
I think of my self as a sane rational person but I must admit my silent reply to your blog tittle on the cafe page was simply: with a rope. Really! I guess I am more angry then bewildered but perhaps most of all uninformed. I am sure a large group, (majority ?), of his constituents voted for the man. Did they not?
I am not sure a song is really the answer but I have got to give you credit, I will be, at the vary least, humming or whistling the song for the next week or so. Of course the song will never mean the same for me again as I will have your avatar in my head rather than the Mother Superior and having sen. L replacing Maria, well, lets just say the term sacrilege must come to mind.
Back to that rope. I guess we will all need to write letters, send emails, talk to our own reps, etc. But I will make you a deal. I promise to not linch sen. L if you promise not to rewrite any of my favorite show tunes.
Thinking over this the answer must be another question: How do you catch a moon beam in your hand.
M. Paul
November 1, 2009 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, but only if you supply me with a list of your favorite show tunes and songs, but sometimes a wildness takes over and this is what happens. This one was fun! Thanks in advance for singing it all week. I swear I saw those ad tattoo on his teeth! I hope I am better than mother superior. If you think about a rope and our most favorite and bestest senator ever, who wants to help us all more than you know, then I might say I've done my job.
Thanks for stopping by M. Paul! :D
Oh and a moon beam is easily caught if and only if the Force is with you and you are humming White Rabbit.
November 1, 2009 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right now the authority for removing persons from office rests with their contemporaries holding similar office.
We very much need to change this to where citizens are afforded the opportunity to 'vote' in some form, maybe anually, via a citizen introduced proposal.
We have had just too many instances where it is clear the present scheme is completely politcally corrupt, is totally broken and is harmful to the nation. The scheme for accountability needs to be seriously revamped. The only logical choice is to put it directly in the hands of citizens. Government will never do this by itself. Ever.
November 2, 2009 5:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes but making fun of him is easy, and people understand humor!
November 2, 2009 8:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lieberman is the most passive aggressive duplicitous sob I have ever witnessed in politics.
I mean, I suppose the repubs would just point to Alan Specter, but there is no comparison really.
November 2, 2009 5:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes I agree Dick, and he has been an endless source of anger for me where Specter pulls the democratic line, Lieberman lives to make money for Insurance and Pharma...
Making fun of his is easy though, it is his doughy face with that pasted on smile and if you look really closely you will see those ads tattooed on his teeth....
November 2, 2009 8:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
At least Specter actually made a move that could end up costing him. Joe's still having his cake, and the Dems are still feeding it to him.
November 2, 2009 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can think of a number of ways to solve the Lieberman problem. Unfortunately they are all illegal and some are pretty sadistic as well.
C
November 2, 2009 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
:D....!
November 2, 2009 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink